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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2014
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
David Richard Smentek, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ali Vahidsafa, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Venkatram Krishnaswamy, Los Altos, CA (US);
Thirumalai Swamy Suresh, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for removal of an offlining cache agent, including: initiating an offlining of the offlining cache agent from communicating with a plurality of participating cache agents while a first transaction is in progress; setting, based on initiating the offlining, an ignore response indicator corresponding to the offlining cache agent on each of the plurality of participating cache agents; offlining, based on setting the ignore response indicator, the offlining cache agent; and ignoring, based on setting the ignore response indicator, a first response to the transaction from the offlining cache agent.